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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) remains challenging for a number of downstream applications, such as visual robot navigation, because of rapid turns, featureless walls, and poor camera quality. We introduce the Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Peter Karkus , Shaojun Cai , David Hsu

The concept of continuous-time trajectory representation has brought increased accuracy and efficiency to multi-modal sensor fusion in modern SLAM. However, regardless of these advantages, its offline property caused by the requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Alberto Elfes , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

We propose a keypoint-based object-level SLAM framework that can provide globally consistent 6DoF pose estimates for symmetric and asymmetric objects alike. To the best of our knowledge, our system is among the first to utilize the camera…

We propose a novel semi-direct approach for monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) that combines the complementary strengths of direct and feature-based methods. The proposed pipeline loosely couples direct odometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Seong Hun Lee , Javier Civera

Object-level SLAM offers structured and semantically meaningful environment representations, making it more interpretable and suitable for high-level robotic tasks. However, most existing approaches rely on RGB-D sensors or monocular views,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miaoxin Pan , Jinnan Li , Yaowen Zhang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

The integration of neural rendering and the SLAM system recently showed promising results in joint localization and photorealistic view reconstruction. However, existing methods, fully relying on implicit representations, are so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Huajian Huang , Longwei Li , Hui Cheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

This paper presents a hybrid real-time camera pose estimation framework with a novel partitioning scheme and introduces motion averaging to monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. Breaking through the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xinyi Li , Haibin Ling

Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical area of research within robotics and computer vision, focusing on the simultaneous localization of robotic systems and associating semantic information to construct the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Haolan Zhang , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

Vision-based Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (VSLAM) is a mature problem in Robotics. Most VSLAM systems are feature based methods, which are robust and present high accuracy, but yield sparse maps with limited application for further…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Juan Jose Tarrio , Claus Smitt , Sol Pedre

Due to 5G millimeter wave (mmWave), spatial channel parameters are becoming highly resolvable, enabling accurate vehicle localization and mapping. We propose a novel method of radio simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Jaebok Lee , Hyowon Kim , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

Existing underwater SLAM systems are difficult to work effectively in texture-sparse and geometrically degraded underwater environments, resulting in intermittent tracking and sparse mapping. Therefore, we present Water-DSLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaming Ou , Junfeng Fan , Chao Zhou , Pengju Zhang , Zongyuan Shen , Yichen Fu , Xiaoyan Liu , Zengguang Hou

The basis for most vision based applications like robotics, self-driving cars and potentially augmented and virtual reality is a robust, continuous estimation of the position and orientation of a camera system w.r.t the observed environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Steffen Urban , Stefan Hinz

The recent surge in interest in autonomous driving stems from its rapidly developing capacity to enhance safety, efficiency, and convenience. A pivotal aspect of autonomous driving technology is its perceptual systems, where core algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Qi Zhang , Siyuan Gou , Wenbin Li

Robust and fast motion estimation and mapping is a key prerequisite for autonomous operation of mobile robots. The goal of performing this task solely on a stereo pair of video cameras is highly demanding and bears conflicting objectives:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Nicola Krombach , David Droeschel , Sebastian Houben , Sven Behnke

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms are frequently deployed to support a wide range of robotics applications, such as autonomous navigation in unknown environments, and scene mapping in virtual reality. Many of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chih-Yuan Chiu

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical technology that enables autonomous robots to be aware of their surrounding environment. With the development of deep learning, SLAM systems can achieve a higher level of perception…

According to experts, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an intrinsic part of autonomous robotic systems. Several SLAM systems with impressive performance have been invented and used during the last several decades. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Eslamian , Mohammad R. Ahmadzadeh

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…